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Season 7 Episode 1 Tick-Tock, Bitches

Aria: How could we let this happen?

Juliet: Oh, my God, poor Hanna.

Spencer: Try to remember that it's what she'd want.

Emily: No, I don't know if I can live with this. I mean, how can we bury - There has to be another way.

Spencer: - There is no other way, Emily. It was a well thought-out plan and when it ends up like this it's called first-degree murder.

Aria: Look, Spencer is right. Come on.

[4 Days Earlier]

Caleb: Toby, you speak cops. You should do the talking.

Spencer:  Wait, Toby, your job is on the line here. You sure that you wanna be a part of this?

Caleb: Are you serious, Spencer? Hanna's life is on the line.

Toby: When you asked me for my help, I said I was all in. I still am.

Toby: Alright, we're wasting time. Let's go.

Mona: Guys, hold up.

Aria: Alison's not the only one seeing ghosts tonight.

Ezra: Maybe she wasn't seeing ghosts at all.

Emily: Unless we're under a body-snatcher invasion that's a real person.

Spencer: When they dug up Mrs. D in my backyard she wasn't just a little bit dead she was rotting-corpse dead.

Caleb: Whoever the hell that is, she was at the Lost Woods tonight. 'If she's a part of this, she knows where Hanna is' and I will beat the truth out of her if I have to.

Toby: No, no, no, you can't just walk in there and start throwing punches. Just, just give me a minute. Let me find out why she's here.

Juliet: And who she is or what she is.

Toby: She's Jessica's twin, Mary Drake.

Mona: From the Radley file. She's Charlotte's biological mom.

Caleb: So why're we still standing here? She thinks Hanna killed her daughter. She's A.D.

Toby: Maybe. But she's one step ahead of us. She just bought the Lost Woods and she's in there filing a report about a break-in.

Ezra: By us. Damn it.

[cell phones chiming]

Spencer: "A lie for a lie”

Juliet: “an eye for an eye.”

Aria: “The bell tolls for Hanna.”

Emily: "A.D.”

[bell tolls]

Aria: No! No! Oh, my God.

Juliet: Hanna.

Caleb: No! No, Hanna! - Oh, my God.

Mona: Hanna.

Caleb: Toby. Come on. Come on.

Emily: Be careful.

Mona: Oh, my God.

Spencer: Hanna.

Aria: Hanna.

Juliet: Hanna.

Aria: Be careful.

Emily: This isn't happening. Emily She's dead.

Caleb: Hanna. It's a mask.

Spencer: What?

Caleb: It isn't Hanna.

Juliet: What do you mean?

Emily: Oh, my God.

Spencer: What?

Toby: So where the hell's Hanna?

Emily: What's this?

[automated message] You've got 24 hours to give me Charlotte's real killer or Hanna dies. Tick-tock, bitches.

Aria: What do we do? - Oh, my God.

[Spencer’s house]

Spencer: Okay, so my parents are about to board their post-election victory cruise so we can make this place command central.

Ezra: Look, we've been trying to figure out who killed Charlotte since she died. Do we really think that we're gonna solve that mystery in under 24 hours?

Caleb: Yes. We will because we have to.

Mona: This is the first time we've all been working together. That's what makes it different.

Juliet: That and a creepy twin.

Emily: Mary has to be A. D. What bigger motive is there?

Mona: And she has to be working with someone. While she was running around the woods last night somebody else dragged Hanna out of that motel room.

Spencer: Guys, Mona's right. It's just like Ali told Hanna. All of us working together knew what happened to her. So all of us together can figure out who killed Charlotte.

Mona: I'm sure each one of us has some idea about who did it. Don't we?

Mona: Alison. Alison. Alison. No name. Mona. Spencer. Alison. Alison.

Ezra: So most of us think that Alison killed her sister.

Toby: Okay, now we need to prove she had the motive and the opportunity to murder Charlotte.

Aria: I don't know about a motive, but she had the opportunity. That night we thought that it was Charlotte but maybe it was Alison.

Emily: How do you know it wasn't Charlotte?

Toby: Charlotte wasn't wearing a red jacket that night and she didn't drive Alison's car home.

Emily: Ali loved Charlotte. I mean, she stayed here to take care of her. Why would she do that just to kill her as soon as she got out? And Th there's no motive.

Toby: She's been on her best behavior since she got back, but we can't pretend the Alison who blinded Jenna never existed.

Mona: Maybe your goody two-shoes ex became too much for her to handle.

Juliet: Maybe she snapped.

Spencer: Or maybe it was self-defense. Maybe it was Charlotte who snapped again. We all know that she was upset about Alison and Elliot being together. Maybe Ali had to defend herself.

Caleb: I don't care why she did it, okay? I just, I wanna find a way to prove that she did it so that we can get Hanna back.

Toby: Okay, well, if the person who murdered Charlotte was wearing the red jacket it'll have Charlotte's blood on it.

Ezra: We'll go to her house to look for it.

Mona: I'm all over Mary Drake. I think she's the fastest route to Hanna.

Caleb: I agree.

Mona: So we work together.

Spencer: Juliet I think you should stay with Jamie, we’ll let you know if anything comes up

Juliet: but I want to help

Toby: Jamie needs you, you’re his mum

Juliet: okay

Toby: She said she was moving into the motel.

Spencer: All roads lead to the Lost Woods Resort.

[cell phones chiming]

Aria: Oh, my God, Hanna.

Caleb: Mona, let me see.

Juliet: Oh, she looks so scared.

Ezra: At least she's alive.

Emily: You guys, we have to get to her.

Toby: But where is she?

Caleb: We need to find her now.

Emily: Here are the keys to Ali's house. I'm going to Welby. And I'm not leaving without an answer. Ali has to tell me the truth.

[Juliet’s Apartment]

Juliet walks in the door to find Jamie and Paul playing playstation

Juliet: hi

Jamie: mama!

Jamie runs up to Juliet and hugs her

Juliet: I missed you so much

Jamie: where were you mama?

Paul: yeah where were you?

Juliet: erm I was at spencer’s they won so we partied

Jamie: can I come next time?

Juliet: yeah when you’re old enough

Paul: I’m sure Jason was invited right? I mean that is his step mom who won.

Juliet: Jamie why don’t you carry on playing and mama will order pizza okay?

Juliet: ok

Jamie goes to play. Juliet whispers

Juliet: that wasn’t fair

Paul: I didn’t know you knew about fair. So was he there?

Juliet: what?

Paul: Jason, was he there?

Juliet: no! – Paul I don’t want to fight

Paul: sounds like what I said once. Remember.

Paul goes to sit down with Jamie

[Flash back]

5 years ago, Juliet wakes in the store to find her mums coat. She looks around with a confused face. Walks upstairs to the apartment with the coat and finds two wine glasses. She goes to her room opens the door to find Paul and Hailey (Juliet’s mum) in bed together.

Juliet: oh my god!

Juliet runs out and downstairs to the store.

Hailey: go after her Paul!

Paul: Juliet wait!

Juliet: no! How could you? With my mum

Paul: I don’t want to fight

Juliet: I hate you

Juliet goes next to Paul and slaps him. Hailey walks down and Juliet looks at her.

Juliet:  I hate you too

Paul: Juliet please

Juliet: DON’T! I don’t want to see either of you again

[Flashback ends]

[Later that night, Spencer’s house]

Spencer: Mary Drake was in and out of Radley for a significant part of her life. She was initially institutionalized for an incident involving the death of a child who was under Mary's care while she was babysitting. There were no charges ever filed but she was forced to stay in Radley until she was 18. And then she was readmitted several times until she got out for good 23 years ago.

Juliet: So she was the babysitter from hell?

Caleb: You guys, that was Mona. Mary just left the Lost Woods. She needs backup. Now.

Spencer: Emily, what is this about?

Emily: I lied to you earlier, Aria. I did see Ali and I'm pretty sure she confessed to killing Charlotte.

Ezra: Did you record it?

Emily: No, it all happened so fast and I wasn't expecting her to say that she did it. I was the holdout earlier. I didn't write down Ali's name because I didn't wanna believe that it was her.

Caleb: Look, this is all great, Emily but the clock is ticking and it doesn't help us. We still can't prove it.

Emily: When I was staying with Ali she told me she was packing up some stuff to give to Goodwill. I didn't know it would be in there. I just had a hunch. Before we hand it over to A. D. Can we please go over this one more time? I love Hanna just as much as you all do. But we're about to hand over one of our own for another.

Aria: But it's different, Em. Hanna is innocent, Ali is not.

Spencer: Look, we know that Ali is a master manipulator but I don't believe that she's a cold-blooded killer. Whatever happened that night, I believe that she was protecting herself, but she still killed Charlotte.

Toby: We don't have time to debate this. Right now, Alison is safely locked up at Welby and Hanna's life is on the line. We need to get that jacket to A. D.

[car engine revving]

Spencer: Caleb?

Ezra: He's gone.

Juliet: How does he know where to go?

Spencer: He took my phone.

[A While Later]

Caleb: Have you heard anything?

Toby: Not yet. Radio silence.

Emily: One of us should go to Welby to check on Ali.

Aria: We did the right thing.

Juliet: She's in a safe place.

Spencer: Yeah, Welby is locked up like Fort Knox, Em.

Emily: I know. You're right.